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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1952
Page
3
A review of Marion L. Starkey’s The Devil in Massachusetts and its modern Freudian reading of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials. The piece lauds Starkey’s narrative, humor, and humane approach, noting her documentation and the book’s warning that witch hunts recur in new guises.
The novel follows Elizabeth Redwood a state official's wife who travels to India seeking inner insight after an affair. An Ancient One and a Hindu guru guide her toward self understanding, while back in Washington her husband’s diplomatic scandal unfolds.
A catalog of new books for fiction and nonfiction featuring authors Miri am Borgenicht Edith C Rivett Dolores Hitchens Adelaide Humphries Peggy O More Vivi en Grey John Jennings Vincent Sheean Noel E Busch James J Skehan Louis Adamic Charles C Carr Clarence J Hylander Adler Hirsch Lucy R Seymer George H Clarke Charles Angoff Henry L Stoddard Robert Payne.
Police found 47 year old Paul Wisecarver with one leg over a downtown 10th floor window after a self inflicted fall. He held sleeping pills and left a note stating he planned to end his problems “the hard way.”
The fragment notes Mr. Sheean's knowledge of India Washington and Chicago but finds his attempt to connect the three perplexing and hard to follow. The reader wonders what the book is ultimately about.
A critical review of Journey to Persia by Robert Payne from New York Dutton 256 pp. It praises Payne’s travelogue through Shiraz Tehran Baghdad and Persepolis linking ancient Persian greatness to modern life. The prose is described as exquisite in poetic prose with strong focus on ancient culture and monumental ruins rather than present day issues.
Alum ni of the Baptist Orphanage of North Carolina will hold their annual homecoming at Mills Home Sunday August 3. Registration starts 8 a.m. program at 10 a.m. with invocation by Varnie Hodges. Welcome by General Superintendent W. C. Reed and response by Leone Stevens Downs. Lunch on grounds. officers include Mary B. Davis secretary Loretta Honeycutt treasurer and C M Howell publicity director.
John and Doris McGee and their two children have just completed a second three year mission tour in Nigeria under the Southern Baptist Convention. They supervise sixty churches and twenty four day schools across eighteen thousand square miles with a native membership near a million. Doris heads the Woman's Missionary Union. polygamy remains an issue, and few modernizing changes are seen while food remains scarce. The family plans statewide speaking engagements as they reflect on their service.
New York reports 1200 annual drownings in small motor boats canoes and rowboats. Most occur June to August during vacations. MetLife says check boats heed weather avoid overloading horseplay and swim if unable to swim.
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